Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-09-03
GevernmentAia for Water.

secure aid from the government to estab- fish water system and to build water storage reservoirs, was evidently wise and timely. The government has more money than the officials know what to do with. Congress will certainly be com- pelled to devise some means of relieving the overcharged treasury by returning the surplus to its circulation i'll the avenues uf trade. The majority of the American people seem opposed to its re- duction by the cutting of the source of supply. Any material change in the tariff Is not to expected ;and though tine revenues may be somewhat reduced in certain lines, the general growth of the country and the augmentation of it's wealth, will more than compensate for | any partial reductions which may be made. The only remedy that seems to present itself is the expending of the surplus revenues upon national improve ments. This is the more to be desired as the present revenue exactions are Tn l nowise burdensome to any class of citi- | zens.
 As far as the states are concerned, | the general government might lend 10 l the several i'll amounts proportionate to J theIr respective wealth. Thls would en- able the states to carry on their internal improvements according to their own ideas and wishes, while 1t would furnish both an interest to meet the accruing interest of the national bonds and fund to liquidate such bonds as they may fall due. That the plan Of Secretary Fair child to anticipate these bonds will prove a failure, scarcely admits of doubt.
 Ill the case of the territories, the mon- 1 'ey should be used by the government direct. for they have no independent ex- istence but are the wards of the nation; and in expending money for the terri tories nothing could be so advantageous ] to the government as the establishment of water system and the building of | storage reservoirs.
 Take New Mexico for example There | are millions of acres of government land, having soil and climate which would make them the granary of the world had they but an abundant supply of water. | This water is also here, but for lack of necessary arrangements for It's storage it runs to waste, and cannot be utilized in | the production of crops. The building of reservoirs could be easily done by the | also for the formation of the country is peculiarly adapted to such enterprises l They are, however, beyond the ability of such private capital as comes to this ter ritory, or of such as may be combined here By the expenditure of requisite amount, these millions of acres would be increased sixty and one hundred fold in value, and thus the wealth of the nation would be greatly augmented, while the government would really get back its outlay with interest. Millions have been expended in our history for river and harbor improvements, most of which has been of doubtful utility, and certainly of very indirect return to the govern ment. The scheme for irrigating the southern territories Is as sure of remun- l eration as any investment ever made by private capitalists. Let the fact be brought fully and forcibly before con gress.-Las Vegas Optic.
 A Time for Nerve.
 Gentlemen will want plenty of nerve in the next twelve months" remarks an English paper, and probably the same thing can be said with equal aptness of the same class of men on this side of. the Atlantic. Weare now seemingly at the bottom of one of the worst times in the cattle business ever known in this coun- try. The panicky feeling naturally ac- companying such state of things Is evidently approaching climax. It is not difficult to see that all this is pre- | liminary to q turn for the better, but just when that turn will set in, and now much | permanence it will show in it's earlier stages, are matters beyond mortal ken It is reasonably certain, however, that some time must elapse before, the mark cts can show substantial recovery or be rid of discouraging features. Without venturing in the line of positive predic- | tion; the Stoekman IS of the opinion that | the cattle bussness of the next twelve m onths will be better than that of the year past, on an average, but that there will be mingled with 1t more or less of the unpleasant features with which cat tlemen are already too familiar. There is every probability, though, that within two years cattle will be selling at good round prices; but in the meantime there will be abundance of opportunity for the display of nerve. Those who show them selves to be possessed of this nerve, and | keep tileir nerUS III shape CO COutiluo III the business, will one day congratulate | themselves upon having kept their l heads. s.-National Stockman.
 Useful and HurGraI Medicines. There is certain class of remedies for constipation absolutely useless. These are boluses and potions made in great part of podophyllin, aloes, rhub4rb, gam boge, and other worthless ingredients. The damage they do to the stomachs of those who use them is incalculable. They evacuate the bowels. it is true, but always do So violently and profusely, and be- sides, gripe the bowels. Their effect is to weaken both them and the stomach. Better far to use the agreeable and salu- tary aperieut, Hostetter's Stomach Bit ters, the laxative effect of which is never preceded by pain, or accompanied by a convulsive, violent action of the bowels On the contrary, it invigorates those or gans, the stopach and the entire system. As meang of curing and preventing malarial levers, no medicine can compare with it, and it remedies nervous debility.